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Magic and the Law of Attraction
In the UR Group’s Introduction to Magic, they repeatedly emphasise that ‘one must not seek power; power must seek you’:
In our tradition, power is feminine and seeks a center: he who knows how to give a center to this power through his own renunciation (hoping our use of the word will be understood) and hardness created by domination of his soul, by isolation and resistance — power is unfailingly attracted to such a person and obeys him as her own male […] Power eludes desire for power, like a woman shunning the lustful embrace of an impotent lover
Power, or magic, is feminine because it is a ‘passive force’. According to Simone de Beauvoir, ‘an action is magic when it emanates from a passivity instead of being produced by an agent’:
The idea of magic is that of a passive force; because she is doomed to passivity and yet wants power, the adolescent girl must believe in magic: her body’s magic that will bring men under her yoke, the magic of destiny in general that will fulfil her without her having to do anything (Beauvoir)
When I read this passage I immediately thought of the ‘Law of Attraction’, which I was only peripherally aware of…
